Uniformidade de mistura das rações e seu efeito no desempenho de frangos de corte

Abstract

The aim of this study was to compare different indicators used on quality control to access the feed mixture uniformity, and were made correlation analysis between the analytical methods used to measure de indicators employed. On a following step, it was evaluated the effect of lack of feed mixture homogeneity on performance of broilers. In the first step, after the analysis of feed mixer efficiency, nine indicators of dry mixture efficiency and two for wet mixture were compared. On the mixer efficiency tests were observed inconstant values of coefficient of variation (CV) after the time needed to achieve CV below 5%. On the comparison of the indicators of dry mixture, five of them presented mean coefficients of variation (CVs) less than 5%, and on the wet mixture indicators comparison test one indicator presented this result. On the correlation analysis, no expressive results were observed, and then the use of alternative methods on the analysis of the indicators can t be justified by this means. On the second step, broilers were reared in four productive phases, with diets with CVs between 5.35 e 49.48%, and were evaluated performance and uniformity of weights of these animals. The obtained results showed that the diets with CVs up to 22.63% cause no effects on the performance of broilers with age above than 12 days. The lack of uniformity of the diets with CV up to 49.48%, don t affect the uniformity of weights of broilers during the rearing period and at slaughter. Concluding the study, it was developed a computer system to guide evaluations of mixture efficiency on industrial equipment of feed production.